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So in a minute, I'm going to get to plays into the defense as I wanted to on Monday, trying to, you know,

and probably do some of that for Tuesday.

And then I'm going to have Logan Pulsin on for Wednesday.

So there won't be any live stream Tuesday night this time just with this holiday week,

et cetera.

It's going to make it difficult.

And so we're going to have Logan Palson.

I'm going to talk to him tomorrow and then we're going to put that out on Wednesday. So tune in for that one.

So anyway, before I get to plays of the game, et cetera, and it's, listen, man, three games, three losses

in a row. It's getting tough here, folks. We know this feeling. You guys have been through this before. We've seen this before. So we'll see how this iteration of the commanders falls out of it.

And one thing that Dan Quinn told us on Monday, it's like, you know, and this is true,

it's really easy to adhere to standards when you're winning.

The key is, can you do that when you're losing and when things aren't going as well?

And so we're going to really learn a lot about the direction of this particular group.

I still like the direction long term for this franchise.

I said that in the beginning of the year, that hasn't changed.

I think you got your quarterback, and then now you just got to get some more parts around him.

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